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Advertising is a very profitable and precise business Every person involved with the advertising business must be in touch with all of the publics likes and dislikes That one aspect of advertising makes the profession so extremely difficult Advertising was originally intended to inform the public of what was available to them by creating a more educated society It was discovered that the more knowledge possessed by people the more they shop and purchase products Therefore advertising became one of the most powerful links between the producers and the consumers Many magazines use advertorials to entice readers to purchase their magazines An adertorial is an advertisement created to copy the appearance of a feature article This is one of the most commonly used tactics by magazine editors to convince you to buy their magazine Another tactic used by some magazines is complementary copy or supportive editorial atmosphere This means that editors of specialty magazines like Motor Trend or Teen will run editorials on products and credit certain companies with praise in order to pursued them to advertise in their magazines The problem with this form of acquiring ads is that not everyone can get away with it If a main stream magazine like Business Week or US News ran praise on automobiles and later credited Chevy in particular to get their ads there would probably be a scandal or even a criminal investigation It is overlooked in the fashion magazines and considered normal business because most of the public regards womens magazines as catalogs for cosmetics anyway Some magazines hold back what they print due to pressure placed upon them by advertising companies If an advertisement by GM is run in Muscle Car Magazine and they have an editorial knocking General Motors muscle cars they probably wont print it because GM may threaten to pull their ads This is how advertisers have a certain amount of control over what we as the public read This

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